Research, Design and Survey Institute for Mineral Mining, Haulage and Processing in Construction Materials Industry — VNIPIIstromsyrie, Moscow, Russia:

G. R. Butkevich, Academic Secretary, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, georgybutkevich@gmail.ru

Open pit nonmetal mines both in Russia and in foreign countries have accumulated immense experience of improvement of mining technology. This article reviews engineering solutions of the 1970–90s. The information is presented for section-wise mining, extraction of inundated reserves, concentration of freight flows and reduction in mined rock transportation, and homogenization of mineral feed to processing plant. One of the most interesting approaches is the decision made by Palm Beach Aggregates, Inc to compose a set of equipment represented by a dragline that piles inundated rock on one of the pitwalls for dewatering and a front shovel with a crushing device and a floating conveyor to handle dewatered rock from the pile to the opposite pitwall. Piling and haulage are implemented by turn, with moving of the equipment from one pitwall to the other. Orange open pit project in USA uses an original approach, when a bench 46 m high is cut with dragline removal of broken rock from the bench top toward mining shovel that feeds the rock to a crushing-and-conveying equipment assembly. The dragline operates a tooth ripper. The VNIPIIstromsyrie Institute has proposed and approved a new trough-type ripper design. The article also gives other examples of actual engineering solutions using the published information and author’s personal observations of open pit mine sites.

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